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Word: wheeler (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Glass v. Wheeler. The Senate was trying to set a date to vote on the McFadden branch banking bill. Senator Burton K. Wheeler demanded that he be allowed to speak for one hour in opposition to the bill, said that Senators Pepper and Glass had promised him the opportunity the night before. Senator Glass immediately denied any such promise. Vice President Dawes rapped his gavel, ruled the discussion out of order, proceeded with a roll call. In the rear of the Senate chamber Carter Glass, 69, thorough Virginia gentleman, ripe scholar, co-author of the Federal Reserve banking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Fisticuffers | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

...this week's legislative record to date. These may merely be symptoms of red-blooded American conviction; if so, we could wish there were more blue blood in politics. Professional baseball and hockey players are fined or ejected from the game for such an exhibition as Senators Glass and Wheeler put on last Saturday. But both senators hold their seats unmolested...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PARLIAMENTARY PUGILISM | 2/17/1927 | See Source »

HARVARD 1930 ST. GEORGE'S Ward r.f. l.f. Cox Wenner l.f. r.f. Biesel Waterman c. e. Dean Glenn r.g. l.g. Wheeler Harper l.g. r.g. Breasted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN TILT ST. GEORGE'S FIVE | 2/12/1927 | See Source »

...every college in New Jersey. Presumably the Intercollegiate Prohibition Association is making, or plans to make, similar campaigns in other states, and then burst a mass of statistics upon the country. Are professional agitators and faked figures to invade even the academic world for the benefit of Wayne B. Wheeler's pocketbook or the purses of his gang...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHEELERESQUE | 2/1/1927 | See Source »

...have wondered for a long time what was wrong with the Gov'ment. Woodrow's set smile made me very nervous. Cool Cal's expression of smelling Limberger cheese has worried me to the point of despair, but this picture of Brother Wayne Bidwell Wheeler [Attorney for the Anti-Saloon League-TIME, Jan. 10] has caused me to wish that I could consult an honest and fairly reliable Bootlegger. . . . ROBERT W. HAWKINS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 31, 1927 | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

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